Background
Bonnefoy, Yves Jean was born on June 24, 1923 in Tours, France. Son of Elie and Helene (Maury) Bonnefoy.
Bonnefoy, Yves Jean was born on June 24, 1923 in Tours, France. Son of Elie and Helene (Maury) Bonnefoy.
Degree in Philosophy. Degree (honorary), American University, Trinity College, Dublin. Degree (honorary), Chgo, Neuchatel.
Associate professor University Center Vincennes, 1969—1970, University Nice, 1973—1976, Provence University, Aix-en-Provence, 1979. Professor College de France, Paris, 1981. Teacher literature Brandeis University, 1962—1964, City University of New York, 1986.
(poetry, bi-lingual French-English edition)
(Book by Yves Bonnefoy)
(219pages. in8. Broché.)
Author: (poetry) Du mouvement et de l'immobilitede Douve, 1953 (Cecil Hemly award), Hier regnant desert, 1958, anthologies to poetry. Translator: Une Chemise de nuit de flanelle, 1951, (Shakespearean plays) King Lear, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest. Theatre des Amandiers, Comedie Francaise, French television.Editor: Dictionnaire des mythologies et des religions des societes traditionelles et du monde antique, 1981, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's Poesies, 1983, Quarante-cinq Poemes de W. B. Yeats, 1989.
Married Lucille Vine Bonnefoy, 1968. 1 child Mathilde.